I'll have to get after Gian Maria. But many of you know abouthim already, I think. =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== * Free Download of the Week from Classical Music Library:
For this week's free download from Classical Music Library go to my web page and click on Alexander Street Press link: http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ *Vaughan Williams'_ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis___* performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher Seaman, conductor. More information about this piece is available on our music blog <http://alexanderstreet.typepad.com/music>. For some free scores, go to: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ =================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute Net" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:11 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lutanist mayhem (was) Re: Etymology | Thanks for the interesting story, Art! | | ed | | At 10:22 AM 3/4/2008 -0500, Arthur Ness wrote: | >There was a time when "lutanist" seems to have been the accepted | >spelling, although it makes me wince every time I see it. It was | >a spelling that appeared in very respectable publications (NY | >Times, Musical Times, Donna Curry). Perhaps lasting into the | >1950s and 60s. I saw the spelling used as late as 1975 in _Early | >Music_ and JAMS. In fact, while looking this morning, I came | >across the spelling in regard to some lutanist mayhem as | >described in a 17th century medical casebook quoted in _JAMS 32 | >(1975): 367: | > | > >>Mr. Ashberrie (a lutanist) at night was bitten by Gottier, | >the French Luteniste in Covent Garden, had a piece of his cheek | >bitten out, an inch or more, on the left side at corner of the | >mouth & neither [i.e. nether] lip, down to the lower part of the | >jaw. I stiched it and dressed it.<< | > | >This is a reference to James Gautier, lutenist to James I and | >Charles I, who fled France in 1617 to escape the consequences of | >a duel. It seems like an exceptionally large number of lutenists | >were engaged in violence. Coming immediately to mind are S. L. | >Weiss and Gian Maria | >Alemani (you don't want to read the description of what he did to | >some poor soul in Florence). | >=====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== | >* Free Download of the Week from Classical Music Library: | > | >For this week's free download from Classical Music Library go to | >my web page | >and click on Alexander Street Press link: | > | >http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ | > | >*Vaughan Williams'_ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis___* | >performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Christopher | >Seaman, conductor. More | >information about this piece is available on our music blog | ><http://alexanderstreet.typepad.com/music>. | > | >For some free scores, go to: | >http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ | >=================================== | > | >----- Original Message ----- | >From: "Tony Chalkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >To: <[email protected]>; "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:20 AM | >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Etymology | > | > | >| Lutenist and lute-player are fine by me. "Luthiste" is French, | >and Lutanist | >| is just bad spelling, I think. | >| | >| tony | >| ----- Original Message ----- | >| From: "G. Crona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >| To: <[email protected]> | >| Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:43 PM | >| Subject: [LUTE] Etymology | >| | >| | >| >I small question. | >| > | >| > To describe a person playing the lute, I've come across: | >| > | >| > Lutenist | >| > Lutist | >| > Lutanist | >| > Lute-player | >| > | >| > Which is (are) the correct one (s)? All of them? | >| > | >| > G. | >| > | >| > | >| > | >| > To get on or off this list see list information at | >| > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html | >| > | >| | >| | >| | >| | > | > | > | > | > | >-- | >No virus found in this incoming message. | >Checked by AVG Free Edition. | >Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1309 - Release Date: 3/3/2008 | >6:50 PM | | | | Edward Martin | 2817 East 2nd Street | Duluth, Minnesota 55812 | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | voice: (218) 728-1202 | | | |
